Here's a drinks reception to celebrate the opening of the Daily Telegraph's Fleet Street office.

Dr Green adds: “For Fleet Street editors, the best way of building up and sustaining a loyal readership was to make their coverage as partisan as possible. Londoners dismissed ‘balanced’ papers as phoney and bland, slants needed to be bold and vivid. In spite of posthumous attempts to glorify newspapers as vessels of truth and enlightenment (the titles Sun, Star, Mirror, Guardian capture something of this), 18th-century Fleet Street was unprincipled, devious and corrupt. Plagiarism was rife, taking bribes from ministers was common and early hacks like Daniel Defoe sold their pen to the highest bidder.”